1985 The Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

They killed an elderly American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and threw him and his wheelchair overboard.

1985 the cruise ship achille lauro. Gunmen hijack Italian cruise liner Palestinian militants have hijacked an Italian cruise liner the Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean and threatened to blow it up. A 69 year old Jewish American man in a wheelchair Leon Klinghoffer was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard. Four Palestinian terrorists stormed into the ships dining room shooting their.

On October 7 1985 four members of one of the PLOs factions the Palestine Liberation Front PLF hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. The MS Achille Lauro caught on fire and sank 125 miles off the coast of Somalia while I was working on board as a crew member. The Achille Lauro Hijacking These sons of bitches must be prosecuted On October 7 1985 four men including mastermind Muhammad Zaidan aka Mohammed Abul al-Abbas from the Palestine Liberation Front PLF hijacked the Italian MS Achille Lauro liner off the coast of Egypt as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod Israel.

On October 7 1985 the Achille Lauro an Italian-flag cruise ship was seized while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said The hijackers members of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization PLO2 had boarded the ship in Genoa posing as tourists. Syria refused to permit the ship to anchor in its. The gunmen are demanding.

MS Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples Italy. On 7 th October at Alexandria 651 of the passengers from the Achille Lauro left for a bus tour of the pyramids leaving 97 onboard. Death of Klinghoffer.

Half of her passengers had left the ship for an excursion overland to Port Said when the terrorists seized her. Achille Lauro Hijacking The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on the 3 rd October 1985 with 748 passengers for a twelve ay cruise on the Mediterranean Sea. 7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF.

MS Achille Lauro the Infamous October Cruise in 1985. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak persuaded the hijackers to surrender but not before they shot to death a wheelchair-bound Jewish passenger from the United States named Leon. Naples Alexandria Port Said Ashdod Limassol Rhodes Piraeus Capri and then back to Genoa.